Dr. Courtney Novosat

Biography

Courtney Novosat has over twenty years of experience in teaching first-year writing, professional writing, and literature courses in the humanities. She is the course lead for Writing Public Problems (76-108) and is a founding co-editor of WOVEN: Interdisciplinary Journal. As a writer for Bedford/St. Martin’s, she has contributed to more than a dozen composition, rhetoric, and literature textbooks and co-authored five resource guides designed for advising instructors on assignment design and effective teaching approaches. Her research interests lie in instructional design and writing program administration, and she actively collaborates on projects related to writing studies pedagogy. Recently, she has piloted a new approach in her course, focusing on developing professional personas and expanding Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) teaching practices in the Technical and Professional Communication classroom. In addition to her teaching and administrative roles, Courtney maintains a research agenda as a literary historian, examining narratives of race and resistance in nineteenth-century American novels, especially utopias and dystopias. She contributed a chapter to the book 'Humanity: New Essays on Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins' published by the University of Georgia Press in 2022.

Research Interests